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News Ticker Widget for Elementor Pro

Latest posts or your own headlines in a moving bar

Overview

What News Ticker does

News Ticker shows a bar of headlines taken from your latest posts or typed in by hand. The headlines can scroll endlessly, slide up, slide sideways, fade or type themselves out. Use it for breaking news, announcements or a sale notice at the top of a page.

Features

What it can do

  • Two sources: Latest Posts with a full query, or Custom Headlines you type in

  • Five effects: Endless Scroll, Slide Up, Slide Sideways, Fade and Typing

  • A label such as Breaking with an icon, a pulsing live dot and four shapes

  • Post date as time ago, clock time or date, plus an optional thumbnail

  • Small tags before headlines: the post category, or your own text for custom headlines

  • Previous, pause and next buttons, and pause on hover

  • Endless scroll speed set in pixels per second, with a separator icon between headlines

  • Headlines can be cut to a set number of words

Use cases

When to use it

Breaking news bar

Show the newest posts of a news site in a bar under the header, with the time each one was published.

Store announcements

Type in your own headlines for free shipping, a sale or new arrivals, and link each one to the right page.

Category updates

Limit the query to one category and turn on Category as Tag to show what each headline is about.

Live event notice

Turn on the pulsing live dot and use the Typing effect to draw attention to one message at a time.

Setup

How to set it up

A few steps from adding the widget to a finished result.

  1. Add the News Ticker widget to your page.

  2. In Headlines, set Source to Latest Posts or Custom Headlines. For custom headlines, add items with a Headline, Link, Tag and Icon.

  3. For posts, open Query and pick the Source post type, Include Terms and Posts per Page.

  4. In Label, type the Text, pick an Icon and a Shape, and choose the Position.

  5. In Motion, choose the Effect, then set Speed (pixels per second) for the endless scroll or Time per Headline (ms) for the other effects.

  6. Style the bar, label, headlines and buttons in the Style tab.

FAQ

Questions and answers

Can I mix posts and custom headlines?

No. The Source option uses either Latest Posts or Custom Headlines, not both in one ticker.

Does a custom headline need a link?

No. A headline without a link is shown as plain text.

Why is the ticker empty on the live page?

The query found no posts, or every custom headline is empty. In the editor a short notice is shown instead.

Which time format is used for the post time?

The Time option uses the time format set in your WordPress settings, and Date uses the site date format.

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